Advertising apparatus.



YOSHMASA MASUZAWA, OF ARMONA, CALIFOBNIA.

ADVEETISING APPABATUS.

inaenea Application filed January 15, 1913.

To all wlom it may concern Be it known that I, YOSHIMASA MA- SUZAWA, a subject of the Emperor o't Japan, residing at Armona, in the county of Kings and State of California, have invented a new and useful Advertising Apparatus, of which the following is a specification.

This invention has reference to improvements in advertising apparatus, and its object is 'to provide an apparatus which by eccentric movements will be especially attractive to observers.

The invent-ion comprises a device responsive to air currents and mounted in so unstable a manner as to move in eccentrie and unexpected directions under the action of air currents, and to present surtaces upon 'which advertising' matter may be displayed so that an observer attracted to the device by the peculiar movements thereof will be constrained to take notice of the advertising matter, thus fulilling the purpose of an advertising device.

The invention is so constructed that it may be mounted almost anywhere that air currents fiow, and at a heightor in a position which 'will cause it to occupy only an insignificant floor or ground space, although the moving; parts of the device may have a considerable spread.

The parts designed to carry advertising matter are so arranged as to have a low center of gravity and are supported in a manner to permit rocking or swinging movements with apparently no regard 'to the dircction of the wind currents, but should unusual wind currents flow the (le-Vice will assume a position where it will present the least resistance to the wind or air currents and so be protected against damage where the air currents are of such force that they would be liable to otherwise injure the device.

The invention will be best understood from a consideration of the following detailea description, taken in connection with the accompanying drawings forming a part of this speoification, with the further understanding that while the drawings show a practical cmbodiment of the invention, the latter is not limited to any exact conformity with the showing of the drawings, but may be changed and modified so long as such changes and modifications mark no material departure from the salient 'features of the invention.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented IFeb. 24:, 1914.

Serial No. 742,136.

In the drawings:--li`igure 1 is a perspectve View of the deVice and the upper end of a supporting post upon which it is mounted. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal vertical section showing the device in the position assumed when subjected to unusually strong aii' currents. Fig. 3 i a horizontal section on the line 3--3` of Fig. 2. Fig. et is a cross section on the line 4-4 of Fig. 1.

Eeferring to the drawings there is shown a. supporting post 1 which may be taken as typical of any suitab-le support, but when the device is used upon a street or upon the ground level, then a post provides a supporting means occupying but an insignificant ground or floor space. Applied to the top of the post l a cap 2 provided with a top plate 3 which may be extended radially with respect to the longitudinal central aXis of the cap, although the cap and post may be sufficiently large to oh- Viate the necessity of any extension of the top piece. Rising from the top piece 3 is a yeke 4: which may be in the form of a U-shaped red having the legs passed through the top piece 3 and riveted or otherwise secured thereto. Passed through the yeke is an eye member 5 preferably of approximately square form with straig'ht sides 6, and rounded angle 7 The eye 5 has elongated leg's 8 arranged to straddle the junction part of a set of wings 9, these wings being preferably formed in two pairs with the two members of each pair made of one piece of sheet material, such as sheet metal bent intermediately to form an angle approximating ninety degrees, so that when the wings are united at the center by any appropriate fastening means the wings will radiate from such Central portion, and being usually four in number these wings are disposed at about ninety degrees apart. The exact number of wing's is not obligatory, but four wings give eXcellent results. The wings taper from the junction point toward the free ends and adjacent the junction point each wing is cut away or recessed, as indicated at 10, sufiiciently to permit the cap piece 3 to be inset into the group of wings, so that the bottom edges of the wings are below said cap piece and the eye 5 is so related to the wings that the intermediate angle 7 of the eye does not reach the plane of the edges in which the recesses 10 are formed. When the set of wings are rest ing in normal position upon the cap piece 3, being supported by the intermediate angle T of the eye 5, the then lower edges of the wings are substantially horizontal, while the upper edges decline from the Central portion of the wing structure toward the outer ends, said outer ends being returned on themselves, as indicated at 11, to embrace rods 12 extending downwardly from the wings so that the center of grai ty of the wing structure is materially below the cap 3 constituting the support for said wing structure. At the Central portion of the wing structure are upstanding parts 14 adding to the area of the wing structure and also serving as an ornamental finish. Thesur aces of the wings may be of any suitable area and may be utilized for any suitable advertising matter.

?When the device is at rest, that is, when not subjected to the action of air currents, then it will assume a position such as indicated in Fig. l with the lower edges of the wings all in substantially a horizontal plane, but when subjected to the action of air currents the device will partially rotate and oscillate and will move in various unexpected directions apparently without regard to the direction of flow of the air currents and the unexpected eccentric movements of the wings, because of the unstable manner of supporting the device, draw attention from observers and the attention of the observer having been attracted the advertising matter will naturally come under observation to be seen by the observer, thus fulfilling the Object of the advertising device which, of course, is to fasten attention. The attraction of the advertising clevice is enhanced by causing curiosity as to the reason for the peculiar movements and also amusement in observing the peculiar movements of the device. Should, however, a strong .wind be blowing it will not result in harm to the device, since then the Wing structure will be blown into an approXimately upright position where the eye will lie substantially flat upon the cap 3, thus presenting the edgesrather than the faces of the wings to the air currents, and as these edges represent but a small fractional part of the area of the faces of the wings even a strong wind will exert but little force upon the device. Even under such circumstances the unusual position of the device will be liable to attract attention and thereby still render the structure efiective as an advertising means.

The upper surface of the top 3 is shown as plane, while the bearing portion 7 of the eye 5 constitutes a rocking pivot support for th parts which are responsive to the action of air currents and, moreover, this pivot support has a range of movement over the surface of the top member 3 whereby and terminating in weights 13,

there is provided an unstable and variable pivot support upon which the wings or vanes may not only rock but move laterally and bodily within limits determined by the spread of the legs of the yoke 4.

lVhat is claimed is 1. An advertising device comprising a series of balanced wings or vanes having a Central pivot, a support for the pivot located beneath the latter, said pivot and support being constructed to permit rocking movements of the wings or vanes, and means on the support interlocking with the pivot and constructed to restrict rotative movements of the wings or vanes.

2. An advertising device comprising a series of balanced wings or vanes having a central pivotal support constructed to permit rocling movements of the wings or vanes, and an upholding member for the pivot support, said upholding member and pivot support being constructed for a movement of the pivot over the surface of the upholding member in a direction lateral to the longitudinal aXis of the pivot support.

3. An advertising apparatus comprising a series of wings outstanding from a common center and there provided with a pivot, a centrally located pivot support, the pivot and support being constructed to permit both rocking and restricted rotative movements of the wings, and weight members carried by the wings in position to cause the center of gravity of the device to be below the pivotal point.

4:. An advertising apparatus comprising a series of wings or vanes radiating from a common Central point, and a pivot member by which the wings or vanes are upheld, said pivot being constructed to permit a rocking movement of the wings or vanes and the latter being disposed in planes radial to the longitudinal aXis of the pivot member.

5. An advertising apparatus comprising a series of wings or vanes extending from a common center and a pivot at the common center upholding the series of wings or vanes, said pivot being provided with an upholding member to which the pivot is related for movements in directions lateral to the longitudinal aXis of the group of wings or vanes.

6. An advertising apparatus comprising a supporting member having a plane top with a yoke rising therefrom, a series of wings or vanes eXtending from a common center, and a pivot for the wings or vanes at the common center comprising an angular eye traversed by the yoke.

7. An advertising apparatus comprising a supporting member having a plane top with a yoke rising therefrom, a series of wings or vanes extending from a common center, and a pivot for the wings or vanes at the common center comprising an angular eye traversed by the yoke, said angnlar eye having an angular portion remote from the connection of the eye with the series of wings, and said angular portion being rounded for roeking engagement with the plane supporting member.

8. An advertising apparatus comprising a supporting member having a plane top with a yoke rising therel'rom, a series of wings or Vanes extending from a common center, and a pivot for the wings or Vanes at the common center comprising an angular eye traversed by the yeke, said angular eye having an angular portion remote from the connection with the eye with the series of wings, and said angular portion being rounded 'for rocking engagement with the plane supporting member, the wings each carrying at the outer end a weight in depending relation to the wing and at a point lower than the point of engagement of the eye with the supporting member.

9. An advertising device comprising :L series of wings extending ontwardly from a common center and each wing having a centrally located recess extending into the wing from the lower edge thereot, an angular eye at the center of the series of wings and located at a higher point than the bottom edges of the wings, weights carried by the outer ends of the wings at points lower than the eye, and a plane supporting member for the eye in entering relation to the recesses in the wings and provided with a yeke traversing the eye to hold the latter from escape from the support, and of a size to permit lateral movements of the eye with relation to the plane support.

In testimony, that I claim the foregoing 4 as my own, I have hereto alfixed my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

YOSHIMASA MASUZr-UVA. lVitnesses:

JOHN F. Pnron, G. M. VVILsoN.

Gopes of this patent may be obtaned for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of I'atet, Washington, D. 0. 

